Dazmondo77
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I think your best bet would have been to start the job from the offset with a global palette - only using those global colours and tints of those globals - it's the way I start every job and saves so much wasted time - although the 'select same' addition to the latest beta is also a life saver
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On 10/30/2020 at 3:03 PM, Otto Manuel said:
but I have not found any way to grab the corner of a group and pull just that corner.
I found the same thing really confusing exactly 6 years ago with version 1 - turns out other users where having the same experience - really should have been a very very basic destructive vector distortion option pretty early on - cum-on Affinity boffins - 6 YEARS -
Like the worlds best cheese and onion crisps (as it states on the packet) tastes amazing (of cheese) but it's still missing the onion - 6 years in development should bring a knockout REAL cheese and onion
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Brilliant work on PDF Passthrough and Data Merge - just having a PDF preview makes a massive difference - also a bonus that if you're having problems you can rasterise the preview and Data Merge works great --- shaping up to be a great update 👍
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On 10/30/2020 at 5:05 PM, postmadesign said:
lacks some of more advanced features Illustrator has.
I would say vector basics - vector distortions are not an advanced feature, but I will agree that Designer is a great user experience and I can do around 30% of my work using it without having to open Illustrator CS5 which feels horrible to use but is essential for plugging the gaps.
On 10/30/2020 at 8:19 AM, fde101 said:My point is that the publisher could take the tools from the Designer, such as Corner Tool, Contour Tool, Pencil Tool, Vector Brush Tool, creating symbols and creating Artboards.
I don't understand - I've totally embraced Studiolink - so 99% of the time I just have publisher open with 99% of all three apps tools available without switching - isn't that the point?
So for me Designer (via studiolink) does have a font manager which works seamlessly
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12 hours ago, Oval said:
… this is (reserved) for different serious problems
?!!?!?!?!??!??!?
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Looks like you have two separate strokes - goto your layers panel, select both strokes and click on the 'join curves' button in the tool specific toolbar above the art board
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42 minutes ago, Sam Neil said:
or this one which is far more powerful than Sparkle
I recommend Everweb https://www.everwebapp.com
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I've had this problem a few times, when you can't even select any layers to move, and found a workaround is to create a new document, create a few boxes, go to layers, click and move layer, switch back to the document with the fault and the layers should again be selectable and moveable
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On 10/15/2020 at 5:02 PM, Petar Petrenko said:
I always use in InDesign 3-pages spread for book covers and 3+3-pages spread for a 3-fold borchure or even 5-pages book cover with flaps. It is very fast and easy.
me too
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2 hours ago, lenogre said:
I'm jealous of VectorStyler.
So many tools I would like to see in AD…
AD would marry with VectorStyler.
Non-Destructive vector distortions in VectorStyler are brilliant
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3 hours ago, Arceom said:
I'm pretty much convinced distortions, image trace and patter tools are features they are holding back to make people buy v2
I believe that very first version of Designer should have had at least a very very basic, destructive, vector distortion capability then there'd be less people like me having a top moan about waiting 5 years and all that, I'm sure they want to knock our socks off with a non-destructive capability, but 5 years blah blah blah....
- Boldlinedesign and Jowday
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I only trust my CMYK Default palette of process globals which has solid CMYK and proper greys ( K 10% incremental tints) which serves my purposes - note that the last black swatch in this palette is a rich black of 20,20,20,100
Feel free to use:
9 hours ago, thomaso said:– Export as PDF/X, this will force an "OutputIntent" being written to the PDF.
I'm with thomaso 👍
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Sounds like your documents are set to RGB then converting to Fogra39 on output which would cause a noticeable colour shift
The Affinity print engine is currently very very basic and cannot output CMYK and only very basic vectors so sending say an A4 magazine ad to print that is setup from the outset in CMYK and printing to a postscript printer or rip would result in a conversion from CMYK to RGB then back to CMYK?!?!?! and fonts and vectors pre rasterised before hitting the rip - currently, the only reliable option is Acrobat, so the much less vibrant colours you are getting will be much closer to the finished print run when using a print house.
My background is in print so I always use CMYK from the outset along with a set palette of global colours, if my print provider wanted Fogra39 I would start the job using that profile this would give a more accurate screen representation and proof (from Acrobat not Affinity) and all your colour percentages would remain intact ie a single pass 100% black wouldn't be converted to a rich black with an ink density around 290% as some print providers I have used would reject a job with a density over 260%
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You need global colours for this - I've requested on multiple occasions, an option to have global as standard but have gradually reached a compromise by creating my own set of global colours, exporting, then importing and making it the default palette for CMYK so every new CMYK document now has a default global palette which also includes REAL greyscale in 10% tint increments
Feel free to use my attached palette, although it is made up of CMYK colours
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I use Birdfont which works great with Affinity, copy pastes back and fourth - just does the job https://birdfont.org
47 minutes ago, kemie said:To make a font you need a LOT of functionality, not only to draw the characters, but to set encoding, spacing, kerning, etc. I'd much rather Affinity focused on other features and left type design to other apps.
Totally agree with Kemie
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I've had this before - a restart worked for me
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On 10/20/2020 at 12:13 PM, Jon P said:
@Dazmondo77 Do you mind uploading the file used in your video here. I'd like to just check a couple of things!
Thanks
Forgive me for being a little sensitive over this job - Maybe 15 years ago I was freelancing for a local digital print company and the studio manager showed me a hugely expensive software package that did a similar thing as this file, to which I replied 'why don't you just do it in InDesign' to which he laughed as they used to run all their variable data jobs through word?!?!? with loads of bother, he told me bluntly 'InDesign doesn't have a data merge capability' and marched off - so I came up with something similar to the Chocolate heart job to demonstrate my idea and how InDesign could meet their needs and how you could use FX on text to create personalised output - he couldn't believe it when I ran a test job through to their Xerox iGen press and it all worked - he trotted off to tell the boss the good news - soon enough the boss was down in the studio excitedly flapping around telling everyone we should feel privileged to work along side a total genius, yes the studio manager took all the credit -
At the time I was made to feel like this was a big deal although there where probably loads of people who had a similar idea and maybe its a standard way of doing this type of work, I don't know? but back then I felt pretty down about having nothing to show for it other than £8 per hour for two days work - so naturally, I feel a little protective of this job even though this technique is probably a standard now.
Sorry for the waffle, just needed to get that off my chest, SWEET THERAPY!
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On 10/20/2020 at 12:13 PM, Jon P said:
@Dazmondo77 Do you mind uploading the file used in your video here. I'd like to just check a couple of things!
Thanks
Hi Jon - do you want me to go back to placing the data merge node inside a group (so it can't generate properly)?
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11 hours ago, Gear maker said:
I'm running into the same problem. To zoom I use an opt + drag. Every so often I hit cmd + drag. I don't have a shortcut set to reset position. With a 27" monitor I don't see much use for the rotate function. I'd like to be able to turn off this function in preferences.
Don't get me wrong, I love the feature and how it works along with a magic mouse but my natural left hand position is to sit over CTRL, Alt, CMD from years of shortcuts and now I've tried and used it, just like ALT scrolling for zoom and free scrolling on the magic mouse, if you take it away or you need to use another mouse, it's annoying when its not available - I think maybe I'll get used to it, I'm feeling much happier using it now my reset rotation shortcut is set to CMD, ~ (which is a repeated shortcut for 'switch to next view' which does exactly the same as CTRL ⇥ minus the ability to add ⇧ to go back) 👍
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On 10/14/2020 at 1:22 PM, MattP said:
- Added ability to rotate canvas if you have a scroll wheel mouse (or two-finger vertical drag on your touchpad) if you hold down Command. This will rotate around the mouse cursor location. Holding down Shift in addition to Command while scrolling will rotate around the centre of the view.
Brilliant feature but I'm struggling a little as it seems way to easy to rotate by accident at present with an apple magic mouse, although I have a shortcut in place to reset rotation. what would be even better was if we had the ability to change or add to the shortcut, for me personally I'd prob go for CTRL, CMD and mouse scroll
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3 hours ago, Sean P said:
Bake Appearance
I like Bake Appearance
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45 minutes ago, Joachim_L said:
It is not possible to delete the default palettes Greys, Colours and Gradients in 1.9.0.798
Needs fixing - they delete fine on Mac - replaced with my own application palettes CMYK and greyscales and my default palette for new CMYK documents is document palette 'process globals' so all back up and running after a few resets with the previous beta
12 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:It is odd that the Grays swatches are RGB swatches when one is in a CMYK document. That should be fixed, and yes, the default palettes should depend on the document color mode.
What Walt said 👍
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Just a "centre on page" would solve the problem for duplex printing - Affinity apps aren't really up to the job for anything other very basic RGB raster printing - I really hope this will change in future
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Will be a free update from 1.9 to 2.0?
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If you're not happy you could always start an Adobe subscription?
Paying for upgrades was made clear from the start, even though I have a moan here and there about a few things, we've still had nine FREE updates (so far) featuring speed, stability improvements, missing / new features and bug fixes - that's amazing value for money